Great book to understand why nordics are living their lives at the fullest, their government educates independence and self sufficiency and provides with high quality well-beings, like good public services of healthcare, education, pensions, and children upbringing costs are low, etc. besides, nordics are also innovative and high achieving people.
Not sure why the rating is so high...I didn't find it impressive. I feel a lot of thing it just scratched the surface and put a general term. Yes, there are facts, but more importantly, the problem is why the country is what it is now and what is the emotional and thinking processes behind it.
从一个移民美国的芬兰人的视角去看芬兰,对比美国和芬兰的各自好的地方和不好的地方,对govt的功能做了比较系统的描述,很有意思的视角。it’s not about big or small government, it’s about a smart or not govt.